Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

For decades, the story of human origins has been pieced together from fossil evidence scattered across Africa, Europe, and Asia. But recent fossil discoveries in China are raising questions that could ...

Scientists believe individuals of the most recently discovered hominin group (the Denisovans ... interbreeding events that ...

Researchers say they have identified a new species of ancient hominin, Homo juluensis, that could help solve another big mystery of human evolution. Their proposal is sparking debate in the scientific ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

New Insights Into the Denisovans: New Hominin Group That Interbred ... animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art -- by analyzing 38 genomes harvested from bones ...

The molar of a Denisovan girl who lived more than 130,000 years ago may help answer how indigenous people living in Australia and other Pacific island nations share DNA with the early-human species.

The Neanderthal Y chromosome is much more closely related to the Y of modern humans than to the Y of Denisovans, another archaic hominin that lived in Eurasia at the same time as Neanderthals, ...

A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a ... New Insights Into the Denisovans: New Hominin Group That Interbred With Modern Day Humans Nov. 8 ...

However, the Denisovans were the first archaic human to be identified in a lab thanks ... “Thus the well-preserved Harbin cranium would represent an early Denisovan. Ongoing research by other ...

A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed ... “Thus the well-preserved Harbin cranium would represent an early Denisovan. Ongoing research by other teams points to the same ...